Microsoft Patches IE Zero-Day Exploit and 27 Other Vulnerabilities

Yesterday was another patch Tuesday, and this time Microsoft rolled out some updates that fix some severe security flaws. A total of 28 fixes were rolled out, included among them is the zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer 6-11 known as CVE-2013-3893. This series of patches marks the 10th anniversary for Microsoft’s patch Tuesday schedule. Of course, the majority of the vulnerabilities patched today could be avoided by using basic computer security common sense.

If you are running Windows make sure that you update your PC! Instructions for Windows 7 | Windows 8. Links to the individual knowledge base articles can be found within each security bulletin as well as instructions for mass deployment over WSUS and other tools.

Here are the major bulletins that were released along with the patches.

Tried it on my laptop and it freed up 3 gigs of old/redundant installer files. A restart is needed and, depending on much junk is cleared out, it can take a little while for it to do its work. Mine took 5 minutes. The space recovered was well worth the wait…